From: Mike '/m' 


Sun bought Cobalt.  Cobalt web hosting appliances ran a "tweaked"
version of RH Linux.  That's why Sun is favoring RH at the moment....

 /m


On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 00:25:17 -0000, "Adam Flinton"
 wrote:

>BTW
>
>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,981353,00.asp
>
>Score 1 for cloning:
>
>" "Yes, this is a change in strategy. Our Sun Linux distribution is
>essentially Red Hat Linux with a few minor tweaks," John Loiacono, vice
>president of Sun's operating platforms group, told reporters at a "town
>hall" meeting in San Francisco Friday morning. "But our
customers told us
>they didn't want a standard distribution that had some tweaks, so I decided
>to fix the problem by simply supporting between two and four standard Linux
>distributions, though I have not as yet decided which these will be. "
>
>Choice is good. Even within / between linux'es 
>Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake & a debian breed?
>
>With the emphasis on say Mandrake or the debian breed? i.e. if 2......& the
>2 are RH & Suse then they'll eat sun's lunch
>
>If it's Red Hat & Suse only.......So mandrake...why not? Linux is
linux & if
>run as a server (inc no gui) then the differences are much smaller.
>
>
>
>Adam
>
>"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
>news:3e84e367{at}w3.nls.net...
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30005.html
>>
>> Suse & Red Hat might end up as competition (much as MS ended up as
>> competition to IBM).
>>
>> So bundle mandrake. I think they have managed to get it running on opteron
>> but i might be wrong....course would Sun want to run Mandrake on Opteron
>> with a sun badge?
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>

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